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Religious Development of Ancient Cities of Central Asia in the 9th-13th Centuries [PDF]
The purpose of the study is to determine the role of various religious traditions in shaping the unique cultural legacy of Central Asia. The paper is based on historical, comparative and, cultural methods, which allow analysing the influence of various ...
Bukhamida Abdukadyr kyzy +3 more
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Tradition and Perspectives of Arab Herbal Medicine: A Review
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), including herbal medicine, are popular in the general population worldwide. Parallel to the increasing interest in ‘modern’ CAM therapies and the historical importance of Arab medicine, there is also a similar trend in research activities dealing with the efficacy and safety of medicinal plants in our ...
Bashar Saad, Hassan Azaizeh, Omar Said
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Nomads of the Southern Urals and New Religious Doctrines of the Medieval Empires of Central Asia
The article is dedicated to the interpretation and systematization of pictorial images placed on the front side of toreutic items from medieval sites of the Southern Urals.
Sergey G. Botalov
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Simeon of Beth Arsham and Barḥadbshabba of Ḥalwān: two views on the “Cause of the foundation of the schools»” [PDF]
The article presents a comparative analysis of the writings of two Syriac authors belonging to the Church of Persia, who held divergent views on Christology and offered significantly different perspectives on the history of the Schools of Edessa and ...
Evgenii Zabolotnyi
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Olon Sume Fortified Settlement and Nestorian Relics
This paper is dedicated to Nestorian antiquities from archaeological sites left by the ancient Ongut tribe. The Onguts settled north and south of the Yinshan mountain range, northeast of the Huanghe River, in what is now Inner Mongolia.
Zheng Yu, Wei Jian, Naga Terbair
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John of Damascus: rewriting the division of heresy and schism
St. John Damascene’s writings on heresies – specifically those texts against Nestorianism and Monophysitism – demonstrate a careful consideration of how thin the line is between schism and heresy.
Zachary M. Keith
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Nestorian Christians in Frontier History
Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two characters, the man and the divine or Son of God. Nestorios, the patriarch of Constantinople taught that thesis in the churches, but the synod of Ephesus in 431 declared it as a heretical ...
Borbála Obrusánszky
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Abstract Family Album follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house ...
Deniz Yonucu
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